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Adobe System Status
Adobe System Status provides detailed information, status updates, and email notifications about Adobe products and services outage, disruption, and maintenance events. Check it out at status.adobe.com.
For the latest release information, see Adobe System Status release notes.
Experience Cloud - central interface components & administration
Experience Cloud central UI components include features available on the home page and the persistent product header. These features include user profile settings, preferences, and search. You can also find help on user and product management, Customer Attributes, and Experience Cloud Audiences.
Provisioning update
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Administrators, don’t miss this important notice about Experience Cloud provisioning (published July 2022).
Adobe Experience Platform
Latest release information and new documentation for Experience Platform and Mobile SDK:
Learn how to use Customer Journey Analytics to publish audiences you discover from your analysis to the Adobe Experience Platform Real-Time Customer Profile for segment activation, using Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform or Adobe Journey Optimizer.
New features, fixes, and updates in Experience Manager. Adobe recommends customers with On-Premise deployments to deploy the latest patches to ensure higher stability, security, and performance.
When sharing digital assets as a link, the users can copy the URL to clipboard right away. The enhancement lets you share assets in a faster and more convenient way. This functionality allows for faster and convenient asset sharing.
When you upload TXT files, the asset microservices automatically generates a thumbnail. The PNG thumbnail is a rendition of TXT file that helps users identity the contents or the files to some extent, without opening the files. This functionality does not require any configuration and works by default.
New feature available in prerelease channel
Users can now sort the assets displayed in the search results in Column and Card views. The sorting works on Name, Created, Modified, or None columns.
Acroform-based Document of Record: Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service supports using Adobe Acrobat Form PDF (Acroform PDF) as a template for Document of Record besides XFA-based form template.
Unified Storage Connector - Use Unified Storage Connector to externalize in-process data in customer-managed repositories. For example, you can
Enable Forms Portal’s save and resume functionality and store adaptive forms drafts in a customer-managed data repository.
Store in-process Experience Manager Workflows data (Experience Manager Workflow Variables data) that contains Sensitive Personal Data (SPD) in a customer-managed repository.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service, Communications - Communication APIs help you combine XDP templates and XML data to generate print documents in various formats. The service allows you to generate documents in synchronous mode. The APIs enables you to create applications that let you:
Generate documents by populating template files with XML data.
Generate output forms in various formats, including non-interactive PDF print streams.
Generate print PDF files from an XFA form PDF and Adobe Acrobat Form. You can write to formscsbeta@adobe.com to sign up for the beta program.
New features available in prerelease channel
Use Adobe Sign roles in an Adaptive Form - Adobe Sign for business and enterprise service levels can optionally expand the roles for Agreement recipients beyond just the Signer, to better match their workflow requirements. You can now enable each recipient of agreement to configure their role in an Adaptive Form, with Signer being the default role.
Analytics for Adaptive Forms - You can now capture and track end user behavior via Adobe Analytics for Adaptive Forms to gather end user insights. It helps make informed decisions that are based on data to improve end user experience.
Easily connect Experience Manager Forms with Microsoft® Dynamics and Salesforce.com - The service provides out-of-the-box data source configuration and data models for Microsoft® Dynamics and Salesforce.com. This ability makes it faster and easier for developers to configure Microsoft® Dynamics 365 and Salesforce cloud services for an adaptive form.
Experience Manager Screens as a Cloud Service
New features
Screens as a Cloud Service now supports basic playback monitoring. The player now reports various playback metrics with each ping (default is 30 seconds). Based on the metrics, it can detect various edge cases (stuck experience, blank screen, scheduling problem, and so on). This feature lets the team remotely monitor if a player is properly playing content. It also improves reactivity to blank screens or broken experiences in the field, and decreases the risk of showing a broken experience to the end user. See Basic Playback Monitoring for more details.
Thumbnail Support for videos in now supported in Screens as a Cloud Service. A content author can define a thumbnail for videos so that the image is used as a placeholder. They can properly test content playback and targeting, while the actual video is being finalized by the appropriate team. The image can also be used, in case the playback of the video fails. See Thumbnail Support for Videos for more details.
Cloud Manager
New features
The version of the AEM Archetype project used by Cloud Manager is now updated to version 30.
The program cards on the Cloud Manager landing page and the associated experience are now refreshed.
The Code Quality Step Log now includes verbose logging information on the OakPal scanning process.
The Activity page menu options now include an option to Download Log for completed Code Generator executions. Selecting this downloads the log of the build step.
Clicking directly on the Program card now navigates to Cloud Manager Overview page.
Cloud Service customers can now view SLA (Service Level Agreement) reports in Cloud Manager. This feature is being made available progressively over the next few months. See SLA Reporting to learn more.
The type and severity of the IndexType and IndexDamAssetLucene quality rules has been changed. These are now both Bugs of Blocker severity.
New Oak index quality rules have been introduced to cover asynchronous and Tika configurations.
Increase max SSL certs per program to 50.
Self-service capability to let users create and manage multiple repositories by way of the Cloud Manager user interface.
SonarQube was unnecessarily reading Git history data. On large code bases, this could lead to an unnecessary build performance penalty.
There is now an API available to invalidate the Maven dependency cache per pipeline.
The version of the AEM Archetype project used by Cloud Manager is now updated to version 29.
Hear from the AEM Product team, and learn about the features and innovations for the latest release of Adobe Experience Manager Assets, Assets Essentials, Sites, Commerce Integration Framework, Forms, and Cloud Manager.
Invoke your power automate flows on an Adaptive Form submission. Learn the steps to configure and integrate Forms CS with Microsoft® power automate. Parse submitted form data, and send DoR as an email attachment.
Learn how to use AEM React Editable Components. AEM provides AEM React Editable Components v2, an Node.js-based SDK that allows the creation of React components, that support in-context component editing using AEM SPA Editor.
AEM CS
Experience Manager release information
All Experience Manager release notes are maintained at the following pages:
Experience Manager Guides is an application deployed onto AEM. It is a powerful, enterprise-grade component content management solution (CCMS) which enables native DITA support in Adobe Experience Manager, empowering AEM to handle DITA-based content creation and delivery.
Adobe Search&Promote end-of-service is scheduled for September 1, 2022. For product and commerce search, Live Search is Adobe’s search application. See the end-of-life announcement for more information.
Learn about headless experience management using the latest Experience Manager Content Fragment enhancements and the new GraphQL API for headless content delivery.
Adobe Campaign provides an intuitive, automated way to deliver one-to-one messages across online and offline marketing channels. You can now anticipate what your clients want using experiences determined by their habits and preferences.
With Journey Optimizer, you can manage scheduled omnichannel campaigns and one-to-one moments for millions of customers from a single application–and the entire journey is optimized with intelligent decisioning and insights.
Learn about Adobe Journey Optimizer’s decision management capabilities. This course is designed for marketers who want to drive revenue, customer experience and loyalty by delivering the best offers to their customers
Use Experience Platform to orchestrate a customer’s journey at scale across experience channels, by intelligently anticipating every individual’s needs in real time.
Marketo Engage is a complete application for lead management and B2B marketers looking to transform customer experiences by engaging across every stage of complex buying journeys.
Core Marketo Engage updates
See Marketo Engage release schedule for the latest release schedule information and release notes.
New Marketo tutorials and courses
New videos, tutorials, or courses published for Adobe Marketo.
Learn how to create an agile team, select the scrum methodology, and determine settings for the scrum team. Watch tutorials migrated from Workfront One that show how to do the Scrum agile methodology within Workfront.
Each Workfront Fusion section contains multiple tutorials, with each tutorial, presenting concepts you need to understand before progressing to the next tutorial. A walkthrough exercise helps you master most concepts.
(September 12 release) Separate pacing controls are now available for flight pacing and intraday pacing. Previously, a single strategy controlled both. Settings for your existing packages and placements were mapped as follows:
Legacy Pacing fill strategy=Even — Now configured as Flight pacing=Even and Intraday pacing=Even
Legacy Pacing fill strategy=Slightly Ahead — Now configured as Flight pacing=Slightly Ahead and Intraday pacing=Even
Legacy Pacing fill strategy=Frontload — Now configured as Flight pacing=Frontload and Intraday pacing=ASAP
Legacy Pacing fill strategy=Aggressive Frontload — Now configured as Flight pacing=Aggressive Frontload and Intraday pacing=ASAP
New features in Advertising Cloud Search
Last updated: September 9, 2022 for September 10 release
Feature
Description
Campaigns
(Google Ads accounts; beta feature) You can now create and manage Google Ads performance max campaigns, which show and optimize conversions for your ads across channels using Google Ads smart bidding, using the Campaign Type “Performance Max.”
(Google Ads accounts) The Campaigns > Ads view now includes an optional Ad Strength column, which indicates how well each responsive search ad (RSA) follows Google Ads best practices for performance.
Microsoft® Advertising doesn’t yet enable similar support via their API.
(Microsoft® Advertising accounts) Synchronization, read-only, and reporting (including view-through data) support are now available for your existing native ad campaigns on the Microsoft® Audience Network, including those with Microsoft® audience ads.
Campaigns, Reports
More publisher impression share metrics become available in the following weeks as columns in the campaign management views and reports.
Conversion Value Rules
(Google Ads accounts; beta feature) You can now view your existing conversion value rules from Optimization > Conversion Value Rules. Advertisers with Google Ads conversion tracking at the individual account level or lower can also create and manage rules.
Portfolios
(Opt-in beta feature; Google Ads accounts) YouTube campaigns with the Maximize Conversions bid strategy in hybrid portfolios are now included in custom simulation results. The hybrid portfolio must include only YouTube campaigns.
To participate in the beta program, contact your account team.
Advertising Insights
The Advertising Insights view has a new look and workflow, based on a new infrastructure that improves performance and reliability. Now, just click an insight name, select or enter the settings, and then click Generate Insight.
To temporarily return to the legacy view, enable Switch to old UI in the upper right. The legacy view will be removed at the end of September.
The Query Cross Matching Beta analysis is now available.
Reports
(Google Ads accounts only) The new specialty report RSA Assets Report shows impression metrics for each asset (Creative Title or Description) for the responsive search ads (RSAs) in one or more portfolios or one or more accounts, campaigns, and ad groups. By default, data includes one row for each asset that received at least one impression in the specified data range, even if the asset was disabled (removed) during the reporting period. Note: When you select the option to “Include rows with no performance data,” the data still won’t include data for assets that have never received data.
Additional support for responsive search ads (RSA) is available in the Ad Variation Report:
(Google Ads accounts only) In the Columns settings, a new “Ad Strength” column indicates how well the RSA follows Google Ads best practices for performance. The same column is available in the Campaigns > Ads view. Microsoft® Advertising doesn’t yet enable similar support via their API. In the Columns settings, you can sort the report results by Creative Titles and by Descriptions.
In the Advanced Filters settings, you can filter by the Ad Text field, which applies to both Creative Titles and Descriptions.
Recommendations
(Google Ads accounts; beta feature) Within Insights & Reports > Recommendations Beta, you can:
See at a glance all recommendations that haven’t been acted on for a Google Ads account.
Apply and dismiss the recommendations for an account.
View logs of each recomendation that was applied for an account.
Ads & extensions; CALL_EXTENSION; Add call extensions to campaign
Ads & extensions; CALLOUT_EXTENSION; Add callout extensions to campaign
Ads & extensions; OPTIMIZE_AD_ROTATION; Use optimized ad rotations
Ads & extensions; RESPONSIVE SEARCH_AD; Add new responsive search ad
Ads & extensions; RESPONSIVE_SEARCH_AD_ASSET; Add responsive search ad assets to an ad
Ads & extensions; SITELINK_EXTENSION; Add sitelink extensions to canpaign
ads & extensions; TEXT_AD; Add ad suggestions
Bidding & budgets; CAMPAIGN BUDGET; Fix campaigns Limited by budget
Bidding & budgets; ENHANCED_CPC_OPT_IN; Bid with Enhanced CPC
Bidding & budgets; FORECASTING_CAMPAIGN BUDGET; Fix campaigns that are expected to become Limited by budget in the future
Bidding & budgets; MARGINAL ROI_CAMPAIGN BUDGET; Adjust campaign budget to increase ROI
Bidding & budgets; MAXIMIZE CLICKS OPT_IN; Bid with Maximize Clicks
Bidding & budgets; MAXIMIZE CONVERSIONS OPT_IN; Bid with Maximize Conversions
Bidding & budgets; MOVE_UNUSED_BUDGET; Move unused to constrained budgets
Bidding & budgets; TARGET_CPA_OPT_IN; Bid with Target CPA
Bidding & budgets; TARGET_ROAS_OPT_IN; Bid with Target ROAS
Keywords & targeting; KEYWORD; Add new keywords
keywords & targeting; SEARCH_PARTNERS_OPT_IN; Expand reach with Google search partners
keywords & targeting; USE_BROAD MATCH KEYWORD; Use broad match for conversion-based campaigns with Fully Automated Conversion Based Bidding
Import Campaigns
(Beta feature) You can import your Google Display Network campaigns, including ad images, into Microsoft® Advertising audience campaigns on the Microsoft® Audience Network from Tools > Import Campaigns. Once you import campaigns, you can check the status of your import job, review any error logs, and edit, pause, or delete your import schedule.
Adobe Document Cloud
New tutorials and courses published for Adobe Document Cloud, including Document Services and Acrobat Sign.
Learn how to tailor and automate document workflows to get electronic signatures, collect form data, and confirm delivery of an important document to streamline workflow management.
As a content creator, you probably generate PDFs and then routinely view those PDF files in Adobe Acrobat. But, Acrobat also includes many tools that help streamline typical creative workflows. Learn two specific tools: Sharing with Others and Protection.
Customer Data Management Voices is your destination as a customer data management technical and marketing practice leader and specialist. This collection of tutorials is your one-stop-shop to hear from your peers, get inspired, and learn about developments in MarTech. No registration required, simply click and watch.
Digital Experience Blueprints
Digital Experience Blueprints are repeatable implementations that let you address strategy and quickly solve established business problems. Each Blueprint provides a series of artifacts that explain the high-value business problem, architectures, implementation steps, technical considerations, and links to the relevant documentation.
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